Politicians in America are waging a war against women. At least that’s what both the Democrats and Republicans are accusing each other of. After a few ill-thought-out comments from Republicans during last year’s presidential elections, the Democrats made Republicans look like a bunch of male chauvinists bent on waging a war against women.

Now the Republicans are starting to accuse the Democrats of their own “war on women” after a couple high-profile scandals surfaced. In the past few weeks, two Democrats have been accused of sexual misconduct and a third has reentered politics after leaving for the same reason.

First there’s New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. In 2011, Wiener resigned from Congress after he admitted to sending lewd pictures and messages to women on the Internet. But last week, Weiner admitted that he continued to send sexually explicit messages to women after he had resigned. This admission caused him to drop from first to fourth place in the race for mayor.

Then there’s San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, also a Democrat, who has been accused by nine women of sexual harassment. Despite calls for Filner to resign, he told reporters last week that he would undergo two weeks of intensive therapy and then return to work.

And finally there’s Eliot Spitzer. After resigning as governor of New York in 2008 for soliciting prostitutes, Spitzer is now running for New York City comptroller, a move which has angered many women’s rights groups.

Consider the low to which American politics has sunk. Look at the municipal elections in New York City, one of America’s most iconic and important cities. The city was on the verge of being run by a man who sent explicit pictures of himself to random women he didn’t even know, and its finances were about to be controlled by a man infamous for soliciting prostitutes. Is this the best America can do? There was a time when public revelations of such scandals would doom a candidate permanently. Today, it’s shrugged off more and more—it practically seems expected.

While both sides accuse each other of fighting a war against women, the real war is far more destructive: It is a war on character. Our leaders—both Republican and Democrat—increasingly exhibit suspect character. Both parties seem increasingly unable to produce morally upright leaders who will stand up for the biblical values the U.S. was founded on.

This is exactly what God said the conditions in the nations of Israel would be like in this end time. In Isaiah 3, God describes how He would take away all the men of character. And who would be left? Isaiah 3:4 says that “I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.” That doesn’t mean physical babies would be in charge, but adults who act like children; adults who blame others instead of admitting fault, like children do; adults who lack self-control, like little children. How can leaders so lacking in character be trusted to make the right decisions for a city when they can’t even make the right decisions in their personal lives?

But all of this is about to change. Mankind’s days of being ruled by flawed human beings are about over. At Christ’s Second Coming, humanity will finally learn what it means to rule with holy, righteous character, and the benefits that come from it. Then, man will finally be taught what true character is. To understand the importance of character, be sure to read Character in Crisis.